MP urged to take action over dying children in Gaza
Martin Shipton
Residents of a Welsh city have challenged their MP to do something to prevent the children of Gaza from dying this winter in a man-made humanitarian catastrophe.
People of Cardiff North put up a tent outside the office of local Labour MP Anna McMorrin, and asked her whether she would live in a flooded freezing tent like the children of Gaza are forced to.
Constituents of Anna McMorrin wanted to know why she was not using her position of power in the UK Government to put pressure on the Israeli Government to open the border crossings and let in winter shelters and other essential aid.
The United Nations has stated its personnel have “food, shelter, medical and other essential supplies outside Gaza – enough to reach hundreds of thousands of people facing the harsh winter.
“This aid has been blocked by Israeli authorities since March. Refusing to let it in is a choice – one that deprives people inside Gaza of the means to survive and recover.
“Months of war and displacement forced people in Gaza to live amid collapsing ruins in makeshift shelters or in flimsy tents.
“While Storm Byron that struck Gaza from December 10 was a natural hazard, its consequences are man-made.
“Seventeen buildings are estimated to have collapsed, and more than 42,000 tents or makeshift shelters are estimated to have sustained full or partial damage between 10 and 17 December, affecting at least 235,000 people.
“Harsh winter weather is compounding more than two years of suffering. People of Gaza are surviving in flimsy, waterlogged tents and among ruins.
“There is nothing inevitable about this. Aid supplies are not being allowed in at the scale required.”
Save the Children has stated: “Every single child deserves a warm, safe home. Yet in Gaza, after two years of Israeli bombardment, siege and aid restrictions – and now as tents flood from torrential rain – children are sleeping on the bare ground with no shelter, in flimsy shorts and t-
shirts that are sodden with sewage water.”
‘Powerful’
A spokesperson for the Cardiff North residents involved in the protest said: “Keir Starmer is one of the few friends that Israel now has left around the world. If only Starmer spoke up loudly about the plight of the children of Gaza, the Israeli Government would have to listen.
“The four Cardiff MPs, Anna McMorrin, Jo Stevens, Stephen Doughty and Alex Barros-Curtis all have posts in the UK Government. They are therefore some of the most influential and powerful politicians in the UK. Why are they not calling openly for Keir Starmer to act, as he would have to listen to them?
“The United Nations estimates that 235,000 people in Gaza are living without adequate shelter for the winter, this is about the same as two thirds of the population of Cardiff. Just imagine if that many people in Cardiff were trying to live in damaged houses and broken tents, and the winter shelters they needed were not being allowed into Cardiff.
“Would Anna McMorrin, Jo Stevens, Stephen Doughty and Alex Barros-Curtis be able to live in flooded, freezing tents like the children of Gaza are being forced to by the Israeli Government?
“Our politicians need to find their humanity and act, the children of Gaza have done nothing other than be children.The winter aid these children so desperately need must immediately be allowed across the border. Children will continue to die the longer they are deprived of the aid they need to live.”
Ms McMorrin has been invited to comment.
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These ministers are useless and they unfortunately unlikely to do anything to help the children in Ghazza. They were unable to speak up against the antisemitic and racist political leader that loves the Austrian painter from the 1930s, I doubt they will speak up for anything worthwhile.
Even according to the Un itself, UNRWA is a corrupt organisation, riddled with Gazan extremists. It cannot be trusted to deliver aid. Meanwhile Israel has ploughed millions of meals, tents, blankets and other supplies into Gaza: the only documented case, during a war, of one side feeding the other. Children starving and freezing is terrible, but please remember, it was the Gazans who started this war.
Iran-backed Hamas started the war. The majority of Gazan citizens don’t support Hamas. As the occupying power Israel has legal, ethical and moral responsibility to treat all Palestinian citizens as their own.
I’d disagree with part of that as the Gazans did actually elect Hamas.
TWENTY years ago. What a twisted view you have of democracy if you think a vote is for life.
What an idiotic twisting of the truth!
Nope. He got it spot on.
No he got it wrong. He is out by a mile. If he was taking part in the Olympics, he would be in the wrong century.
You have probably got your illusion of facts from your esteemed leader who despite not denying he made antisemitic and racist bullying comments and said that ,”Hitler was right ” and made horrifying hissing noises to mimic the gas chambers in Auschwitz, he could not condemn nor apologise for such behaviour. Anyway the zionist settlers and the zionist army started this war of genocide with their incursions into Jenin in June and July 2023.
Nothing to do with your mate Farage. Just a democratic nation defending itself after the horrors of 7/10. Oh and there’s not a thing wrong with zionism. The Jews have always had a right to a state in their ancient homeland.
What the horrors of June and July 2023 in West Bank? Oh, they don’t count, do they? Muslim lives. Who cares. Well, I care even if you don’t. Why are some lives worth more than others? Bots don’t care though.
Aren’t the Egyptians allowing aid to cross on their side?
Understandably, they have a highly secure, walled border with Gaza so I believe there may also be practical considerations. It may also provide an escape route of Hamas and they are the cause of all this.
The zionists started all this with their incursions into Jenin in June and July 2023. They are the real cause of all this bloodshed. Get your facts right bot.
7/10 was Inexcusable and the start of this war.
Jenin was inexcusable , despicable and horrendous and the real start of this war.
It’s criminal that the Senedd is not valuably condemning our lack of criticism & action against Genocidal Israel.
you invaded my home,
you slaughtered my family
you stole my land, my animals
you bulldozed my olive trees
you bombed and murdered
for over 76 years
you murdered millions with
billion dollar western weapons
you killed sleeping babies
and their mothers
you blocked food, medicine,
even rainwater
you laughed and filmed while
you committed atrocities
you broke every international law
and violated my every human right
and the west calls me
the ‘terrorist’ and you the ‘victim’
Should have accepted the UN’s two state peace plan in 1948. Rather than trying to destroy Israel instead. Oh, and not one line of the above justifies what happened on 7/10.
Yes the evil zionist government should have accepted the UN 2 state solution of September 13th 2025. Semitic Palestinians are entitled to their homeland rather than justifying the despicable actions of the evil zionist government and settlers incursions into Jenin 2023.
It’s unacceptable and disgusting enough that there are normal members of the population who won’t condemn Israel’s genocide, but to have political leaders not condemn it is a sign that society is damaged beyond repair.
Can’t get McMorrin and many of her M.P colleagues to do anything about the homelessness and poverty on our own streets. Gaza is far away as far as she is concerned unless there’s a spot of virtue signaling to be gained out of it.